Re: Problem with Vista's "sleep" function or me?

"koch" <koch.33ptr0@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> Mark Conrad's post asking how to hack Vista to hibernate reminded me of
> a situation I encountered several months ago.
>
> Here's the gist of it: I put my laptop to sleep, packed it up into my
> backpack within a booq sleeve, and approximately 30 minutes later took
> it out of the backpack to use again. The problem was that my laptop had
> overheated during this relatively short period of time, and became so
> hot that I could smell burning plastic. Fortunately, I restarted the
> computer in time to get the fan going and there wasn't any permanent
> damage done.
>
> Question: what did I do wrong? Should I have NOT left my laptop in this
> state, enclosed, for this period of time? I assumed that Vista's "sleep"
> was the new "hibernate" and that it was safe to keep it in this state,
> certainly for 30 minutes or longer. I've subsequently avoided using
> sleep since, but I would really like to start using this feature again.


Sleep is some bull that MS came up with to help destroy the environment. It
saves the RAM contents to disk, like Hibernate, but it still keeps the RAM
powered, like Standby, to save you that fifteen seconds or so when you want
to resume using the computer. The reason for the saving to disk is pretty
mysterious. Maybe it is in case the computer crashes while its asleep or
something.

Enable Hibernation at the command prompt (run as admin) with "powercfg -h
on"

ss.

It worked well with my ASUS board but not my Intel board.
Everything else is the polar opposite, I have had nothing else good to say
about ASUS.
3 RMA's on the same board type, their 680i series is nothing but a bunch of
hype and garbage.
RMA service is laughable with ASUS as well.
The boards die with no post constantly, irregular failures with Vista and
constantly forcing me to re-register for no reason at all until they blue
screen to death.
Intel on the other hand has been solid other than the Sleep Feature.
I hope this gets resolved soon.
The only item I can say was different with the systems was that S3+S4 were
enabled on the ASUS board.
Intel only has S1 & S3 available.


"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
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> "koch" <koch.33ptr0@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
> news:koch.33ptr0@no-mx.forums.net...
>>
>> Mark Conrad's post asking how to hack Vista to hibernate reminded me of
>> a situation I encountered several months ago.
>>
>> Here's the gist of it: I put my laptop to sleep, packed it up into my
>> backpack within a booq sleeve, and approximately 30 minutes later took
>> it out of the backpack to use again. The problem was that my laptop had
>> overheated during this relatively short period of time, and became so
>> hot that I could smell burning plastic. Fortunately, I restarted the
>> computer in time to get the fan going and there wasn't any permanent
>> damage done.
>>
>> Question: what did I do wrong? Should I have NOT left my laptop in this
>> state, enclosed, for this period of time? I assumed that Vista's "sleep"
>> was the new "hibernate" and that it was safe to keep it in this state,
>> certainly for 30 minutes or longer. I've subsequently avoided using
>> sleep since, but I would really like to start using this feature again.
>
>
> Sleep is some bull that MS came up with to help destroy the environment.
> It saves the RAM contents to disk, like Hibernate, but it still keeps the
> RAM powered, like Standby, to save you that fifteen seconds or so when you
> want to resume using the computer. The reason for the saving to disk is
> pretty mysterious. Maybe it is in case the computer crashes while its
> asleep or something.
>
> Enable Hibernation at the command prompt (run as admin) with "powercfg -h
> on"
>
> ss.
>